{"id":25506,"date":"2013-11-13T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=25506"},"modified":"2013-11-13T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:05:50","slug":"wright-state-staging-local-premiere-of-wild-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/11\/13\/wright-state-staging-local-premiere-of-wild-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State staging local premiere of \u2018Wild Party\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Lippa\u2019s provocative and scintillating 2000 off-Broadway musical \u201cThe Wild Party\u201d receives its overdue local premiere in Wright State University\u2019s black box Herbst Theatre beginning Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"story_premium_fill\">\n<p>Adapted from Joseph Moncure March\u2019s risque 1928 narrative poem, the musical tells the story of vaudeville performers Queenie and Burrs, whose decadent indulgence reaches fever pitch when they decide to host a party inside their dingy Manhattan apartment. The couple\u2019s flavorful assortment of eccentric, self-absorbed friends contribute to an evening spinning out of control in a sweltering sea of alcohol, desire, rage and disillusionment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueenie and her friend Kate often talk about no limits, no boundaries and no comprise, but the audience will find that is not necessarily the case,\u201d said director Jamie Cordes, who previously directed Wright State\u2019s productions of \u201cThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee\u201d and \u201cBerlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill: A Musical Voyage.\u201d \u201cThere is a limit to things. We must comprise on some level. But I hope audiences see aspects of themselves even though this is a racy story. Addiction is still particularly prevalent. Some of us even have an addiction to certain TV shows. We can\u2019t keep our eyes off the Kardashians. And in this case, the audience will not be able to keep their eyes off the cast and these characters\/storytellers. But if there is anyone suffering from addiction, there is still a possibility of redemption, the possibility of making a change. It is the overall message in this piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/wsu-staging-local-premiere-of-wild-party\/nbpdH\/\" target=\"_blank\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Andrew Lippa\u2019s provocative and scintillating 2000 off-Broadway musical \u201cThe Wild Party\u201d receives its overdue local premiere in Wright State University\u2019s black box Herbst Theatre beginning Friday. Adapted from Joseph Moncure March\u2019s risque 1928 narrative poem, the musical tells the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/11\/13\/wright-state-staging-local-premiere-of-wild-party\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25508,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25506\/revisions\/25508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}